A video preview of Sojourn’s excellent new album, “The Water and the Blood“:
Mike Cosper, the pastor of worship and arts at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Kentucky writes:
"About four years ago, I began to notice how many of the hymns we sang at Sojourn were written by Isaac Watts. When I began to look at his body of work, and when I discovered what he’d done for the culture of worship in the English-speaking world, it sent me (and Sojourn music) on a pretty radical journey. In 2009, we released Over the Grave: The Hymns of Isaac Watts Volume I, a collection of rewritten and re-imagined Watts hymns. Now, two years later, we’re releasing Volume II: The Water and The Blood.
If you include tracks from other Sojourn releases, we’ve now recorded 26 Watts hymns. Some are nearly verbatim, while others are pretty radically re-imagined. It seems in the spirit of his work to adapt his language (while at pains to retain the concepts) for the sake of modern congregations.
The Water and the Blood is available now. It was recorded essentially live, to tape, over a few icy days this January, and it shows. The record is warm and intimate. Below you’ll find an mp3 of “Death Has Lost It Sting,” our reworking of Watts’s “Psalm 3.” It’s a good sample of what you’ll hear on the record.
Watts has profoundly affected on our congregation, providing a model for gospel-centered singing. We’re eager to share this incredible body of texts with the broader church."
Audio: “Death Has Lost Its Sting”
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